Moonlight Circle Dance

1956

Gene Kloss

Associated Names
Gene Kloss

Artist, American, 1903 - 1996

The scene is captured from an elevated point of view at night, focusing on a dance below towering mountains. The mountains form a dark backdrop against the sky with broad strokes emphasizing their ruggedness. The horizon is low as the mountains meet the sky subtly lit by moonlight. Homes with a cubist architectural style are clustered beyond the dancers. The dancers in flowing white garments show motion and communal harmony. The image is in a monochrome palette with rich black tones for the mountains and ground, and softer whites and light grays for the figures and homes, creating a mystical, timeless quality.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint and aquatint in black

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 20.32 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1980.45.909

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Kloss 1981, no. 461


Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1981

  • Kloss, Phillips. Gene Kloss Etchings. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Sunstone Press, 1981, p. 188, no. 461.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: Moonlight Circle Dance; lower right in graphite: Gene Kloss

Wikidata ID

Q65568571

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